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Members of UB's Space Bulls team in Houston, getting ready for the competition.
Published June 3, 2015 This content is archived.
Today is the day! UB's Space Bulls Robo-Ops team is competing at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, in the RASCAL Robo-Ops Competition.
Part of the competition is to attract as many viewers as possible to watch the event. The team is competing TODAY at 3:30 EST. To view the rover in action, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifleFWE4f2U.
The rover will be controlled from Space Bulls Mission Control in 412 Bonner Hall.
From the RASC-AL Exploration Robo-Ops website: Information from Team Rover Stream and Social Media
The RASC-AL Exploration Robo-Ops Competition is an exciting, one-of-a-kind, opportunity for teams to test the rovers they have built at the NASA Johnson Space Center's Rock Yard.
Team rovers are tasked with navigating the treacherous Rock Field, climbing in and out of Lunar Craters, finding their way across Sand Dunes, and charging Mars Hill. Their goal is to collect as many rocks as possible during a one hour period, each of different size, shape, color and point value, while effectively demonstrating their rovers versatility, dexterity, and capacity to carry the rocks back to the top of Mars Hill (i.e., Mount Kosmo).
To simulate real-life interplanetary rover situations, each rover will be tele-operated off-site at the team’s home campus where teammates will remotely control the rover. Rover operation is completely dependent on information garnered via the onboard rover cameras.
The live stream feeds from the rover cameras and microphones can be viewed live during their one hour competition runs.